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"Joel McHale has been happily married to Sarah Williams since 1996, but that hasn&amp;apos;t stopped the Community actor from amassing a legion of gay fans. In fact, the father of two says he finds it &amp;quot;flattering&amp;quot; when people assume he&amp;apos;s homosexual.\r\n&amp;quot;I always find it really weird when guys flip out over someone thinking they might be gay. If a guy gets offended by that, there&amp;apos;s something&amp;apos;s wrong with him,&amp;quot; McHale tells The Advocate. &amp;quot;I take it as a compliment.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nMcHale -- who jokes that he has crushes on Brian Williams, Kobe Bryant and Chaz Bono -- says he was often hit on by other men when he was starting out in Hollywood. &amp;quot;Much like in Say Anything, guys usually stand outside my house with a boombox over their head blasting the Indigo Girls,&amp;quot; he quips. &amp;quot;Actually, guys sometimes will tweet me, &amp;apos;I&amp;apos;m in L.A. Staying at such-and-such hotel. What do you think?&amp;apos; Of course, it all depends on the quality of the hotel.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nHe continues, &amp;quot;Back when I had just moved to L.A., before I was on any show, I was meeting a friend at a bar connected to this restaurant we went to. When I got there, I was the only one in the bar. While I was messing with my phone, I didn&amp;apos;t notice the whole bar fill up with men. Guys kept coming up, asking, &amp;apos;What&amp;apos;s going on, man?&amp;apos; I figured they&amp;apos;d seen the commercials I was in. Then I realized that these men were coming on to me because I was alone in a gay bar.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nBecause Community has struggled in the ratings (and was shelved for several months before returning in early 2013), McHale tells The Advocate he&amp;apos;s especially grateful to the quirky comedy&amp;apos;s many gay viewers. &amp;quot;Community needs all the help it can get, so thank God for our gay fans. Our young gay fans especially are the loudest and most Internet-savvy,&amp;quot; the 41-year-old Soup host explains. &amp;quot;That also speaks to the quality of our show, which I think is highly intelligent.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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